Trooper going nearly 100 mph before fatal crash
Published 9:51 am Tuesday, July 21, 2015
RED WING — An accident reconstruction report said a Minnesota state trooper was driving nearly 100 mph when he crashed his squad into another vehicle and killed a couple in Cannon Falls.
According to a press release, Trooper Scott Reps was racing to the scene of a motorcycle accident a few miles away when he hit a car driven by 78-year-old Norman Scott. He and his 79-year-old wife, Geneva, were killed.
The Department of Public Safety’s report concludes the trooper was traveling between 95 and 98 miles per hour, before it went into a skid. The report said speed was certainly a factor. But, it also said Scott failed to yield when he was pulling out of a McDonald’s parking lot.
Reps is charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter in the July 4, 2014 crash.